Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, breakfast, yeast bread on Dec 12th, 2009
I always struggle with how to describe yeast bread dough precisely enough so that someone can reproduce the results I got. Almost every dough is elastic and smooth after kneading, so that doesn’t really help. Sticky and not-sticky are good, but each describes a wide spectrum. My first inclination is to compare it to a [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, cheese, freezer friendly, italian, pork, sandwiches, yeast bread on Jul 17th, 2009
This is the third time I’ve made this bread, and the first two times just didn’t do it for me. It seems like a given, right? Bits of sausage and cheese dispersed in a tender buttery bread? What isn’t to like? The first time, it was the type of cheese I used that ruined it. [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, breakfast, french, yeast bread on Jul 8th, 2009
You know how you hear people talk about getting ready for bathing suit season? Um, yeah, I’m no good at that sort of thing. A month before I went on a vacation to the beach, I decided I should undertake a croissant project. A week before the trip, I made brioche. On the drive to [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, breakfast, freezer friendly, yeast bread on Jul 2nd, 2009
After my initial trials with sourdough last year, in which I mixed up an easy starter and made a couple loaves of not-at-all sourdoughy bread, I gave up for a while. I ignored the starter I’d made until it eventually dried up and I had to throw it away. When I visited my parents last [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, bread, breakfast, yeast bread on Jun 4th, 2009
I’ve always wanted to make this bread just because the shape of one of the variations is so cool. It’s a round loaf with strips of dough crossed over the top, the ends split and curled around. I ended up not using that shape though. The bread is flavored with all sorts of things – [...]
Posted in Bread Baker's Apprentice, book review, bread, freezer friendly, yeast bread on Jun 1st, 2009
It’s a good thing I had well-behaved friends for the most part in high school, because I am apparently highly susceptible to peer pressure. A new baking group has recently been formed, somewhat similar to Tuesday with Dorie, but baking their way through Peter Reinhart’s Bread Baker’s Apprentice. I resisted joining the group for a [...]
